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lively an appearance as possible, during the winter 

 months, the silver-fir, the yew, the holly and the 

 spruce, should be dropped in here and there. It 

 will be in vain to plant the first and last mentioned 

 sorts, however, on very dry ground. The broad- 

 leaved bay, and the Portugal laurel, may likewise 

 be introduced on the outskirts, where they will ap- 

 pear to great advantage. 



With regard to the management afterwards, the 

 most indispensable of all requisites is, that the plants 

 receive no injury from the inroads of cattle. It is 

 no easy matter, where young trees are planted in 

 narrow belts, small groups, or even singly, and sur- 

 rounded on all hands by grass used for pasturage, as 

 it now generally is, in parks and pleasure grounds, 

 to prevent trespasses of the kind in question. Pre- 

 vented, however, they must be entirely, or the 

 quick growth of the plantation is utterly hopeless. 

 Of all quadrupeds, the most injurious to trees are 

 sheep. They, too, are most difficult to exclude ; 

 and it is by them that the grass in pleasure grounds 

 is most commonly pastured. It is to be lamented, 

 that no other method, equally profitable, of consum- 

 ing the grass in pleasure grounds, is practicable ; 

 for these animals, useful, and even ornamental, as 

 they undoubtedly are, never fail to be a source of 



